Business traveler's revolt: One sues to stop merger

Tom Belden

The natives are growing restless. A group of 50 air travelers, mostly business people, filed suit in San Francisco in an effort stop the merger of United and Continental because of what the plaintiffs (and a few members of Congress and an untold number of consumers) say will be its anti-competitive result. One of the plaintiffs is from Las Vegas, and here's a local newspaper story about the suit.